25-40% Accuracy lost to memory after 24 hours
Time written up on Friday is not recorded, it is remembered. And memory almost always under-counts.
Professional services · Middle East
Attorneys work forty-nine hours a week and bill thirty-seven.
That twelve-hour gap is worth roughly two hundred thousand dollars per attorney, per year.
34.8 mo
median time from filing to trial in federal civil cases, against 6.9 months to disposition.
Source: US Courts: Federal Court Management Statistics, March 2026
In the Gulf
This is what it actually runs on here.
Platforms in this market
- DIFC and ADGM court portals
- Ministry of Justice systems
- document stores
Rules that apply here
- DIFC and ADGM procedure
- UAE federal courts
- Saudi Ministry of Justice rules
We read the rule before the call. It is the cheapest way to prove we did the work.
What is happening
Forty-nine hours worked, thirty-seven billed. The gap is not laziness.
22% Of professionals record under 70% of their client time
Meaning for more than a fifth of fee earners, over 30% of billable work is never captured at all.
Effort data is scattered across four systems
A document management system, practice management, accounting and a shared inbox that never reconcile — so matter economics cannot be shown to a client.
Trust reconciliation consumes senior time
A compliance-critical task done manually every month by people whose hours are the firm's product.
However hard, whatever it is
Unbilled hours are one example. Bring whatever the partners argue about.
This page is about recovering the gap between worked and billed. If yours is matter intake, conflicts or client reporting, same approach.
-
01 We sit with you
Days where the work happens, not a workshop in a meeting room. We watch the job get done and write down the shortcuts nobody wrote down.
-
02 We read everything
Your data, your rules, your vendors and their documentation, and the published research on your sector. We report what is actually in there.
-
03 We break it to first principles
Not which tool fixes this. What is actually causing it, taken apart until we reach the piece that cannot be divided further.
-
04 Then we build
Weeks, not quarters. By this point we are not guessing what to build, and guessing is the thing that makes projects long.
Where we sit
Your document store stays. We build the twelve hours back.
4
What you get
- Hours captured Time recorded as it happens, not reconstructed
- Realisation The gap between delivered and billed, closed
- Matter economics Profitability per matter, visible during the matter
3
Built new for you — none of this exists in your stack today
- Time capture that drafts the narrative for you to approve
- Matter opening that takes one form instead of five
- A client statement they can read without calling you
2
The matter layer Reads your documents and time. Bills nothing without a fee earner agreeing.
Connectors, one agreed meaning per field, and a model reading what no
field holds. Accuracy measured on your own records.
1
- DIFC and ADGM court portals
- Ministry of Justice systems
- document stores
What you already run — unchanged, and still yours
If the matter file holds it, we can reach it. A document store with no API, an email thread, time entered in a desktop tool. All of it can be joined.
-
No API -
No documentation -
A terminal from 1994 -
It arrives as paper -
The vendor said no -
It reports nothing
Not a list of limits. Name yours on the call.
And once we can reach it, a model can read it. Most of the value here is in the sources nobody ever structured — the note, the letter, the screen.
Intelligence, plumbed in
A matter file is text. Time narratives can be drafted from it.
Underneath: a connector to the document store, matter-level access rules in the layer, and a fee earner approving every line.
How we make AI survive real data-
Connectors -
A semantic layer -
Evals you can check
What changes
Judge us on this, not on what we built.
Hours captured Time recorded as it happens, not reconstructed
Derived from document, email and calendar activity, presented for confirmation rather than typed from memory.
Realisation The gap between delivered and billed, closed
Automated time-to-billing workflows are associated with realisation rates eight to twelve points higher than manual processes.
Matter economics Profitability per matter, visible during the matter
Not at write-off time, when the only remaining decision is how much to absorb.
Who this is for
The people who feel this first
-
Managing Partner -
Chief Operating Officer -
Legal Operations Director -
Finance Director -
Practice Group Head
Straight answers
The questions you would ask on the call
-
Our attorneys will not adopt another time-tracking tool.
They should not have to. Anything that asks a fee earner to do more work will fail. The capture has to be derived from activity that already happens — documents opened, emails sent, meetings held — and presented for a single confirmation.
-
Is this surveillance of our lawyers?
It is a fair concern and the design answer matters. Capture should surface to the individual for confirmation before it goes anywhere else, and it should record work product activity rather than monitor behaviour. A system that feels like monitoring gets circumvented, which also makes it useless.
-
What is the realistic return?
Start from your own numbers: hours worked against hours billed, per fee earner. Firms with automated time-to-billing report realisation eight to twelve points higher. Apply that to your own revenue before believing anyone's projection, including ours.
-
Is AI safe on privileged matter files?
Access rules live in the layer, per matter, before the model sees anything. A fee earner approves every line that leaves it.
Do you know the rules that apply in the UAE, Saudi Arabia and the wider GCC?
For legal that means DIFC and ADGM procedure, UAE federal courts and Saudi Ministry of Justice rules. We read the rule before the call, so the first meeting is about your operation rather than about us catching up.
Whatever legal needs here, we can make it.
What you already run stays where it is. Around it we build software, hardware and the process itself. Here that means time capture that drafts the narrative for you to approve.
See everything we build-
Software -
Hardware -
Ways of working -
Whole ventures
Honest about the numbers
The figure above is from US Courts: Federal Court Management Statistics, March 2026, for legal.
We have not localised it, because a number nobody can check is worth less than a real one plus this sentence. The pattern travels. The size of it in your market is a question for the call.
Same industry, other markets